'Potatoe Boy' Weighs In on Dan Quayle's Election Gaffe

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[Chet 99]

Sarah Palin and Joe Biden may have made a few mistakes during Thursday night's vice presidential debate, but it remains to be seen whether their mistakes will stick in voters' minds like one infamous vice presidential gaffe from the 1992 election.

Few political gaffes are as memorable as Vice President Dan Quayle's misspelling.

Quayle told a grade-school boy in New Jersey that he had misspelled the word "potato" during a photo-op spelling bee. With the cameras rolling, Quayle directed the boy to add an "e" to the end of the word.

"Potatoe" became a defining moment in the election, and it turned Quayle into political laughingstock.

[Chet 99]

It looks like the Big Media, including Fox, had stories like this in the can in case Palin fell on her face in the debate, as they hoped she would. I guess Fox decided go with their story anyway.

[Ingtar]

The sad thing about the potatoe incident was how much of a set up it was. They handed him a cue card with the word spelled with the e after telling him they had to match the card.

[gunnedah]

They are not reporting that Biden did not know the article of the Constitution that gave the VP his role. He also did not know the job description.

[nralife]

From what I remember, it wasn't Quayle's fault. The person running the spelling bee told him (passed him a card) with the incorrect spelling. Then, as now, the MSM refuses to cut Republicans any slack or tell the whole story.

[nralife]

Ah, you beat me to it! But I'm glad that we remembered the same thing. My mind isn't gone yet... lol

[Berlin_Freeper]

Potatoe versus 60 States.

I'm thinking potatoe isn't so bad after all.

[nralife]

57 but who’s counting! ;-)

[WildcatClan]

58, there was one state “we” had not been in yet. lol

[Berlin_Freeper]

Right 57, but then Alaska and Hawaii plus some other State.

Obama said 57 but he was counting 60 in total.

Which is really very bad considering he is a Senator and there are 2 from every State and the whole power in the Senate is based on those numbers.

[LA Woman3]

Really? I never heard that!

[nralife]

Okay... I stand corrected. Thanks. It's good to have all the facts if I'm going to offer that quote up to some of the liberals at work... lol

[rawhide]

First I have ever heard of that. It figures when you had msm controlling all the news back then.

[Las Vegas Ron]

“Potatoe” with an “E” is a correct spelling though old fashioned

[LA Woman3]

William Figueroa, now 28, knew how to spell 'potato' when he was a 12-year-old, but Vice President Dan Quayle did not.

[Ingtar]

Among other places to find it: Qayle’s biography.

[The G Man]

The person running the spelling bee told him (passed him a card) with the incorrect spelling.

You are correct. And further, it was a ... (wait for it) ... teacher who spelled the word wrong on the card they gave Quayle.

[w1andsodidwe]

Well of course you haven’t if you only listened to the media. We that saw the video where it happened saw that he was handed the card with the wrong spelling by the teacher. It was a set up.

[Cinnamontea]

"Potatoe" became a defining moment in the election

Well, it was a defining moment for me. I learned just how low and vile the mainstream media -- which never had a word to say about Gore misspelling "scary" as "scarey" in a homemade Halloween card -- is.

Through this incident and others I learned to loathe the MSM and thoroughly distrust them -- all of them. I haven't watched ABC, NBC, CBS, or CNN in YEARS, and God knows I don't touch the mainstream newspapers.

[Uriah_lost]

No, the person that handed Quayle the card did not....

Let’s not let the MSM keep doing this to us.

[nralife]

Ah, the “good old boyz (and gurlz)” teachers union.